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Oscar nominee Tom Cruise (the "Mission: Impossible" films, "Collateral," "Jerry Maguire") and Emily Blunt ("The Devil Wears Prada," "The Adjustment Bureau") star in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow, under the direction of Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"). The epic action of Edge of Tomorrow unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Lt. Col. Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski. And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy. The IMAX release of Edge of Tomorrow will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of An IMAX 3D Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.

Initial release: May 28, 2014 (Switzerland)

Director: Doug Liman

Running time: 113 minutes

Story by: Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Screenplay: John-Henry Butterworth, Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth

Starring

Tom Cruise

Emily Blunt

Budget $178 million

Box office $341.3 million

Source: IMDB WIKI

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Plot

A race of aliens called Mimics have taken over continental Europe. Major William Cage (Tom Cruise), a Public Affairs officer in United States army, seconded to the NATO-led United Defense Forces (UDF), is summoned to London to meet with General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson). Brigham states the UDF's intention to launch Operation Downfall against the Mimics. When he orders Cage to cover combat on the beaches of France, Cage objects to the dangerous assignment, and threatens to portray the General in an unfavorable light, for which he is arrested and knocked out. He awakens in handcuffs at a forward operating base at Heathrow Airport. Cage meets Master Sergeant Farell (Bill Paxton) and a squad of rejects known as J Squad. Brigham has sent a note to Farell, claiming that Cage is actually a private and a deserter who will falsely claim to be an officer. Farell assigns Cage to J Squad.

Cage is dropped in with the first wave, unaware that the Mimics have anticipated the invasion. Cage is attacked by an unusually large "Alpha" Mimic and uses a Claymore mine to destroy it. The Mimic's blood douses him after the mine explodes, and Cage wakes at Heathrow the previous morning. Realizing he now knows the outcome of the operation, Cage unsuccessfully tries to convince his squad mates that the invasion will fail and everyone will die. Each time he dies, he wakes up the previous morning. In one such loop he saves Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a famous soldier known as "Full Metal Bitch" and the "Angel of Verdun", in reference to the battle at Verdun where Vrataski slew hundreds of Mimics. She recognizes Cage's ability to anticipate events and tells him to locate her when he "wakes up".

Cage finds Vrataski and explains that they know each other from the future invasion. Vrataski confides in Cage that she too possessed the ability to reset, which allowed her to kill hundreds of Mimics at Verdun, but lost it after receiving a blood transfusion. Vrataski takes Cage to see Dr. Carter (Noah Taylor), a former government scientist and expert in Mimic biology. The doctor explains to Cage the time-loop situation, saying that the Mimics possessed the ability to reset time whenever an Alpha was killed, and by being covered in an Alpha's blood during the invasion, Cage had inherited the ability. Vrataski tells Cage that he will begin to experience "visions" of the alien's hive mind called the Omega. Cage eventually sees the Omega in a Bavarian Alps dam. Through training with Vrataski, Cage's combat proficiency increases along with his memory gained from the previous loops.

Filming

Production began at Leavesden Studios near London. Warner Bros. had purchased Leavesden as a permanent studio site after previously renting space there for its production of the Harry Potter films.Though the director initially did not want a beach set built, the production had one built at the studio site. It was intended for battle scenes and to be reminiscent of coastal battles during World War II such as the Invasion of Normandy and the Battle of Dunkirk.Principal photography began at Leavesden on October 1, 2012.The Los Angeles Times said on the second day, Liman "demanded a total reshoot of everything filmed on Day 1", which had concerned producers. Filming on the beach set was planned to last two weeks, but the scheduled extended to nearly three months due to what the Los Angeles Times called "the director's self-described 'workshop-y' filming style".Filming also took place in Trafalgar Square in London on November 24, 2012. The square was closed to the public, and tanks were brought in to film some action scenes.A former army base in the village of Barton Stacey in Hampshire, England was also used as a filming location for two weeks.

Liman said filming took place seven days a week using two crews to film 20 days in addition to what had originally been scheduled. The crew struggled with rainy British weather since the film was supposed to be set in one day and had to maintain the same weather.Though filming concluded by August 2013, actor Jeremy Piven was added to the cast, and extra scenes including him were filmed.(An early review of the film said Piven did not appear in it.